Category: Conferences
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Soundscapes Workshop Part 2
Just before the start of the Michaelmas term, I went to the Archiving the Soundscape workshop at the Wellcome Institute, London, organised by the Soundscapes in the Early Modern World project. Day 2 began with a panel which opened with an archaeologist from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Catrina Cooper, who worked on the Virtual…
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Spain
Although there are certain aspects of my job that I am less than happy about, I have to admit that it has brought me opportunities that even a few years ago I would have found difficult to imagine. Many of these revolve around the chance to travel to places I would otherwise not have seen,…
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XI CIHCE – Scripta in Itinere
I was privileged to be invited to the XI Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Cultura Escrita, held this June in Alcalá de Henares, which will for me be forever remembered as the city of storks – these enormous birds nest atop many of the old buildings around the Calle de Colegios, clacking their beaks…
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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 4
This is the final entry in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. After the break, it was time for me to reprise my lecture from the Historical Association’s ‘Teaching the Tudors’ CPD day in York, ‘A History of the Reformation in 5 Ballads’. It was…
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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 3
This is the third in a short series of posts about the Historical Association conference, held in Chester in May 2019. The opening session on Friday morning was a keynote talk from Dr Fern Riddell called ‘Uncomfortable Histories: From sex to the suffragettes’. Considering that the audience was mainly made up of teachers, Dr Riddell’s…
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Historical Association Conference 2019 Part 2
This is the second in a short series of posts about the Historical Association Conference 2019, held in Chester in May. The first general pathway session that I attended was given by Dr Tim Grady on ‘German Jews, the First World War and its Devastating Aftermath’. Gorlitz War Memorial is illustrative of German Jewish history…
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EFDSS Broadside Day Part 1
At the end of February, I travelled up to Glasgow to speak at the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Broadside Day at the Unviersity of Strathclyde. This is the first in a short series of posts about the day. Due to a series of unfortunate cricumstances, I didn’t reach Glasgow until 11am, so I…
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MedRen 2018 Part 1
This is the first in a short series of posts about my trip to the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Maynooth during July 2018. The Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, known as MedRen, was a slightly scary undertaking for me. I’ve only been to one music conference before, where I presented a paper on…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…
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Embodiment and New Materialism Part 1
Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. The first day of the conference was held in the lovely city of Lancaster itself, at Lancaster Castle and the Storey Institute.…
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